"I’ve read other people’s comments about how the floppy disk icon is a good thing. Seriously? Think about it. That’s holding onto the past; and providing a lack

"I’ve read other people’s comments about how the floppy disk icon is a good thing. Seriously? Think about it. That’s holding onto the past; and providing a lack of recognition for young people, who will literally have no idea what one is" - so what? Noone really needs to ever have seen an actual floppy disk. That's the power of symbols, they become civilizational archetypes. Is that holding onto the past? Of course. That's the POINT. When was it that hourglasses still were in common use? Long before first computers emerged :) And yet all the "young people" (which is all modern people, if we follow the author's point and define "young" as "having no first-hand experience with the object depicted by the icon") had no problem understanding what hourglass represented. No doubt that over-reliance on icons leads to poor user experience - Gmail went in that hieroglyphic direction, they replaced a "spam" label with some mysterious octagon etc. - but too much of anything is bad.